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While this cookbook does not offer specific recipes that utilize butter, it does contain various sections and subsections with interesting details about butter and its value as a healthy option for cooking. The subsection highlighted here begins by noting that the people who consume a lot of dairy are often the healthiest and highest achieving racial groups. This suggestion provides some insights into the prevalent racism that permeated North America at the time. The section further discusses the importance of butter to the human race as a whole, describing it as one of “the most concentrated energy foods known to man.” It also discusses some newly discovered vitamins and how butter is high in two of the most important ones, vitamins A and D. 

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The second highlighted section from the cookbook contains a quote from the 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, regarding the alleged connections between race and healthful eating. This quote is important because it reveals a lot about the mindset of many North Americans in the 1920s. Hoover claims that White people “cannot survive without dairy products.” This quote emphasizes how ingrained notions of racial purity and superiority were at the time, as well as the discrimination that was levelled at non-White groups. Often, the "Roaring Twenties" are positioned as a time of affluence and enjoyment, but the reality was that many North Americans were still struggling to be accepted as citizens and to survive on meagre wages due to racist attitudes. 

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